New Beginnings

Hello and welcome to the first post from my blog reboot. Formerly known as Small Kitchen Cooking, I have decided to expand my wondering aloud to include everything I’m into. Which is a lot. I did have someone recommend Mental Whiplash Crafting to me as new title, since I have such diverse interests, but it just doesn’t have the right ring to it.

I live in Southeastern Wisconsin, in an area that is halfway between the suburbs and truly rural with my husband, daughter, and two cats. I have seen it written as the “exurbs” before, but that is not a commonly used term. My backyard is a farm field, and my next-door neighbor commonly shoots at the coyotes to scare them off. But I can get to Milwaukee or Chicago in less than an hour and a half, so I’m not really in a remote area.

In case anyone is curious just what my interests include, I am going to try and list them out here. I will probably forget a few.

- Knitting, crocheting, weaving, felting (and I have done some spinning, but am not that huge of a fan.) I like yarn

- Sewing, quilting, etc. I have altered my own curtains, made the majority of my own wedding dress, and own way too much fabric; I like that, too.

- Gaming. Board, role-playing (table-top, please. I don’t LARP anymore), video, mind…

- Cars and automotive things. I used to change my own oil, for both myself and my husband. I like cars and trucks. This winter I took apart the carburetor for our snow blower, cleaned it, and reassembled it. It works now.

- Gardening, mostly vegetable, but we bought a new-to-us home about a year ago and didn’t do anything to keep up with the garden last summer, so we really are having to make up for it now. I’ve been paying a lot of weeding penance.

- Food Storage (like canning) and recipes. My, how far down the list this has fallen!

- Home décor and improvement. This August we are getting our windows replaced. After a lot of research and reading, we decided to go with Okna windows and a contractor out of Milwaukee.

- To a limited extent, cleaning and organizing. We are still fiddling with how we want our home to look. There are a few boxes sitting around still, because of some of the planned décor and improvement projects.

- There will be some slice of life bits here and there. Because this is about my interests as they relate to my life, and how I manage to work on all of them.

I hope to be able to jump on here and publish weekly or biweekly, we will see how life’s schedule takes us in the next few months. I hope you will enjoy the ride, and check back to see how things go around my home.